[sdnog] issues with high IO systems

[Patrick Okui]

On 28 Nov 2017, at 13:14 EAT, Samir Abdullatif wrote:

> Hi all
>
>
> I have 5 servers which are sharing an NFS monted storage for access 
> logs. the log files are huge about 0.6 TB of Daily logs.

0.6 TB every day? Wow! That’s quite some data. Or you mean 0.6 TB over 
time?


> my issue is that the shared storage is keeping the machines busy and 
> not replying to my cacti snmp polling which keeps sending down alarms.


Is the problem speed of NFS or size of the open files?


> any advice on how to go about this issue ?


If the servers are busy waiting for network, then move from NFS 
otherwise, rotate the logs.

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patrick